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Selected research projects

Please find below a selection of on-going and recently completed research projects at SSPA.

Integrated flooding control and standard for stability and crises management – FLOODSTAND

The size of new passenger ships has increased tremendously during the past decades. This trend is expected to continue, as bigger size means new opportunities and economics of scale.

Efficient, Safe and Sustainable Traffic at Sea - EfficienSea

EfficienSEA is an EU Baltic Sea Region 3-years project with participation of 17 partners from six countries in the region including Norway.

SURvivability evaluation - SURE (SURSHIP project)

The overall aim of the project is to increase the knowledge of dangerous ship conditions, how to keep away from them and how to manoeuvre the ship in the best way under these circumstances.

Intuitive operation and pilot training when using marine azimuthing control devices - AZIPILOT

AZIPILOT is funded by the European Commission via the Seventh Framework Programme (CoordinatedAction).

Hydro-Testing Alliance - HTA

HTA is an EU FP6 (EU Framework Programme 6) Network of Excellence and the goal is to develop a formal and lasting structure to co-ordinate the definition and introduction of novel measurement, observa

Sustainable methods for optimal design and operation of ships with air lubricated hulls - SMOOTH

The strategic objective of SMOOTH is to apply air-lubrication to ships and to provide new products in terms of required control- and paint systems to introduce air-lubricated ships, regardless whether

Visionary Concepts for vessels and floating structures - VISIONS

VISIONS is an EU FP6 (EU Framework Programme 6) Network of Excellence.

The Virtual Tank Utility in Europe, VIRTUE

The goal of VIRTUE is to improve and integrate state-of-the-art CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) tools in a comprehensive simulation environment of ship performance at sea aiming to complement model

Baltic Sea Safety (SURSHIP project) - BaSSy

The main goals of the project are to develop a risk analytical framework and toolbox, for evaluating the risk to human, environment and assets of ship collisions and groundings.

Research study on the sinking sequence of MV Estonia

SSPA was leading a research study on the sinking sequence of MV Estonia between 2006-2008

Goal

The goal was to investigate the sinking sequence and explain